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Subject: Why do you think Halo 2 is better than Halo 3 (or vice versa)?
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Posted by: IIDWells55XII
I played Halo 2 pretty much every day it was out until Halo 3 came out. I already quit Halo 3 in favor of Call of Duty 4. Draw your conclusions from that.


You're a terrible decision maker? lol

CoD 4 is a good game, but Halo 3 has sick multiplayer. C'mon.

  • 11.19.2007 11:49 AM PDT

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People that love halo 3 are just happy because there done with getting raped by us beasts with true skills.

  • 11.19.2007 2:18 PM PDT

Posted by: Nomadik
Posted by: IIDWells55XII
I played Halo 2 pretty much every day it was out until Halo 3 came out. I already quit Halo 3 in favor of Call of Duty 4. Draw your conclusions from that.


You're a terrible decision maker? lol

CoD 4 is a good game, but Halo 3 has sick multiplayer. C'mon.

No, Halo 3 is just a broken game that's not worth the time playing.

  • 11.19.2007 5:56 PM PDT
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Well yeah everybody keep seeing halo 3 as just another halo 2 with better graphics. Yes there are other fun games that u should not ignore like Call of Duty 4. But like u said u used to play halo 2 everyday until halo 3. Both games are similiar in everyway. For that is why u got bored of halo 3 so fast, games deserve breaks and im sure u be bak on it in no time and realize what a great game ur missing.

  • 11.19.2007 6:20 PM PDT

HAHA!!! That's hilarious arkattisfat. I can't begin to explain how much I disagree with you. Why do hate Halo 3 so much?

  • 11.19.2007 9:34 PM PDT
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Nobody should hate any of the games, they are both great games, but in different aspects.

and yes, BOTH of them take skill.

Everybody blames the auto-aim for taking the skill away, but since everybody has auto-aim, then the person with the better BR wins anyways.

  • 11.19.2007 10:10 PM PDT
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i spend more time play custom games because that way i can make the game more like halo2 i just change the AR to a BR give you a SMG as a back up then change the movement to 110 percent and i think this makes this alot better

  • 11.20.2007 1:08 AM PDT

Posted by: arkattisfat
Posted by: Nomadik
Posted by: IIDWells55XII
I played Halo 2 pretty much every day it was out until Halo 3 came out. I already quit Halo 3 in favor of Call of Duty 4. Draw your conclusions from that.


You're a terrible decision maker? lol

CoD 4 is a good game, but Halo 3 has sick multiplayer. C'mon.

No, Halo 3 is just a broken game that's not worth the time playing.

Haha.... do you just like the way that sounds (many here do)? Or did somebody else play those 600 games on your gamertag?

Wow, I'd hate to see how much time you invest in a game that's not 'broken' and 'not worth the time playing'.

There's a few things I would have kept from halo 2, not many though as halo 3's mechanics are already better. Personally one of the big things I don't understand in these criticisms is saying halo 2 was faster-paced. How? I don't see that at all. Halo 3 is faster paced as far as I'm concerned.

  • 11.20.2007 3:03 AM PDT

Posted by: arkattisfat
Posted by: Nomadik
Posted by: IIDWells55XII
I played Halo 2 pretty much every day it was out until Halo 3 came out. I already quit Halo 3 in favor of Call of Duty 4. Draw your conclusions from that.


You're a terrible decision maker? lol

CoD 4 is a good game, but Halo 3 has sick multiplayer. C'mon.

No, Halo 3 is just a broken game that's not worth the time playing.


I am sorry about that - someone here accidentally used my file on this computer (I leave it signed in). Halo 3 is a great game, and yes the online and forge are sweet features (plus, can't wait for the new maps), and CoD 4 is awesome too, but Halo 3 is better in the end.

  • 11.20.2007 12:30 PM PDT
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my description of halo3 is that is is a team based game period it relays on communication and long term decision such as whether to snipe someone or to pull out your AR. But to my knowledge halo 3 does have its draw backs yes there is no auto aim but who needs that i agree.. the time it takes to kill someone has dramatically dropped. Yes halo 2 uses the tricks and glitches. Well thats you choice on it about making the assumption that anyone can do those things or they take no skill. I started playing halo 2 right off the bat when it came out along with halo. during the last year i learned what BxR or double shot is i have mastered it and i am undefeated in 1v1s against KSI and many other clans and people. i have gone to the MLG tourneys and proved my worth there too I am a very experienced and noble player i Have never modded or been in a modded party for then a minute. I have played halo often at my friends house. i have ranked up to a lvl 35 there too. which is one major reason that halo 2 is better it takes no time to lvl. On halo 2 it takes a good team to even get near lvl 35 or 40 if you know what that feels like you will understand my reasoning. In halo 3 it is based more on your skill alone rather then your teams in MM anyways. Yes a guy gets 20 some kills but yet he may get no accuracy. And someone who gets 01 kills but 20 assists is still not ranked up as much as the guys who was MVP. This is very unreliable way to get lvled up. halo 2 is faster pace. how long will it take you to kill someone in halo 3 full shields. probably about 5secs. In halo 2 it takes pure skill and practice and full knowledge of a map and tactics of that map in order to BxR that person or assassinate them. Yes you may mess up and lose the sniper tower on lockout, that is tactics to control it and not run up to the tower. The major thinking about halo 2 is how to flank a person or team holding a position. when in halo 3 it is to get the head shot or stay together there there is no holding spots or following commands in MM. yes i agree the halo 3 selection of weapons is better. But the pace for halo 2 and time and practice you need yo be important part of your team in it is uncomparable. Halo 3 the campaign is very good combine the halo 3 campaign and the halo 2 glitched system and you have yourself a good game. Also the FORGE on Halo 3 is awesome but no tutorial is very scary and makes people bored with it because they feel ignorant when you try to make a game type. and halo 2 its simple just like BxR and double shot its simple but yet very hard to combine those two things into game play

  • 11.20.2007 12:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Xbot
Halo 3 is much too balanced (if that makes any sense) I think Halo 2 is better BUT remember, they are working on a patch for Halo 3 so that can change in a heart beat. Halo 2 seems much more fast paced which made the game SO much better.


Sorry, but from an overall skill and quality of gameplay standpoint, no SHOOTER (balance in a shooter really means much more and is different than balance in a game like Star wars that someone earlier mentioned) can be "too balanced "


Posted by: Dark Spartan117
If the assault rifle was in H2 then there would be no SMG whores....H2 had the best multiplayer because of this Halo 1 was groundbreaking no multiplayer, Halo 2 just as ground breaking but HAD multiplayer. Halo 3 same thing but i think competitive gamers are used to Halo 2's scheme and are used to online thats why some ppl say H2 is more addicting.

Don't believe me? Talk to The Shard


LMAO at SMG whores, like there could ever be such a thing.

Posted by: NotShookImCold
People that love halo 3 are just happy because there done with getting raped by us beasts with true skills.


You have it the other way around, kid. You actually have to have skill in Halo 3, not power weapon abuse like in Halo 2.

Posted by: Sago


Everybody blames the auto-aim for taking the skill away, but since everybody has auto-aim, then the person with the better BR wins anyways.



Not really, it just means the worse players have a better chance of winning against the more skilled. And just because everyone has auto aim doesn't change the fact that it's much easier to aim without it.

Posted by: IIDWells55XII
I played Halo 2 pretty much every day it was out until Halo 3 came out. I already quit Halo 3 in favor of Call of Duty 4. Draw your conclusions from that.


That besides Rainbow Six 3, no other online shooter besides halo 2 was really worth playing until the 360 was released.

Halo 2 barely had any competition its first year or two, while Halo 3 is being released into strongest console shooter lineup since, well ever.

You may think CoD4 is better than Halo 3 (hey, i do too), but that doesn't change how much better Halo 3 still is than halo 2 to this day.

  • 11.20.2007 3:00 PM PDT
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how i reacted to the Halo 3 Beta needler!

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its ok i used it 25% of the time but when someone used it on me thats when i started calling him a n00b and a modder and how i was going to give him negative feedback you sissy needler user.

halo2 better than halo 3?

  • 11.20.2007 3:11 PM PDT

Posted by: NinjaSpartan777
Posted by: NotShookImCold
People that love halo 3 are just happy because there done with getting raped by us beasts with true skills.


You have it the other way around, kid. You actually have to have skill in Halo 3, not power weapon abuse like in Halo 2.

Exactly. Put these halo 2 heroes in any other shooter and they will lose, hard. Too many good halo 2 players were far too reliant on cheap game mechanics to gift them the wins they treasure so much. Now you have to work to do well, not just grab the power weapons and rain one-sided death on the other team with your auto-headshotting rifles.

If you're actually good, you'll still do well and you'll still win. If you just thought you were good, you've got another think coming. It's very amusing listening to these precious wannabes cry about their new-found equality and try to blame it on "overbalancing".

  • 11.21.2007 3:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: NotShookImCold
People that love halo 3 are just happy because there done with getting raped by us beasts with true skills.


You have it the other way around, kid. You actually have to have skill in Halo 3, not power weapon abuse like in Halo 2.


First of all, there are as many power weapons in halo 3 than there are in halo 2

but if there were to be more power weapons in halo 2, then i would say:

It's the power weapons that made Halo 2 a better game, because a team had to have a strategy, for example in lockout, one would grab sniper, then hold BR tower, but a team would have to make sure to grab the sniper once it spawned again - same with sword. It was this competition to grab the power weapons that made halo 2 more strategy based.

  • 11.21.2007 6:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: mauricio14
halo2 better than halo 3?


or vice versa; for you to discuss it - read the title.

  • 11.21.2007 6:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: Sago
Posted by: NinjaSpartan777
Posted by: NotShookImCold
People that love halo 3 are just happy because there done with getting raped by us beasts with true skills.


You have it the other way around, kid. You actually have to have skill in Halo 3, not power weapon abuse like in Halo 2.


First of all, there are as many power weapons in halo 3 than there are in halo 2

but if there were to be more power weapons in halo 2, then i would say:

It's the power weapons that made Halo 2 a better game, because a team had to have a strategy, for example in lockout, one would grab sniper, then hold BR tower, but a team would have to make sure to grab the sniper once it spawned again - same with sword. It was this competition to grab the power weapons that made halo 2 more strategy based.



The difference being in halo 3, the power weapons have little touches that make them slightly less abusable. I mean, they're still power weapons, but the sword has the delay when you switch and shorter lunge, rockets don't lock on anymore and have less splash damage, the sniper has a slower rate of fire and slight recoil, etc... Controlling them is still a strategy, it just takes a little more effort (and imo skill), and power weapon abusing is less dominant than vanilla Halo 2 because while the assault rifle isn't perfect, it gives you an almost fair chance to outwit and defend yourself against power weapon users, at least more than the SMG did.

In Halo 3, the team with the better aiming and maneuvering might have a disadvantage to power weapon holders, but they still have a chance to win depending on how much better they are than the other team, and (again imo), having good aim and maneuvering should matter more than holding a power weapon to kill those with weaker weapons.

  • 11.21.2007 11:33 PM PDT

Posted by: NinjaSpartan777
having good aim and maneuvering should matter more than holding a power weapon to kill those with weaker weapons.

QFT

  • 11.22.2007 2:32 AM PDT
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This is prolly a stuipid question, and ill prolly get banned for going off-topic but...how do i make a Post of my own? (not a reply)

  • 11.22.2007 7:11 AM PDT
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go to the page where you see all of the other posts. at the top and bottom there's a link that says "New Topic"

you click on that

  • 11.22.2007 2:02 PM PDT
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halo 2 owns halo 3 in everything except graphic. even the campign is beter, H3 is so short

  • 11.23.2007 4:16 PM PDT
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halo three takes the cake dude the gameplay new weapons and campain are all better, the graphics rock i dont see why people think halo two compares i think halo two was the worst of the series halo one had the best campain but who really even plays campain anyways.

  • 11.23.2007 4:24 PM PDT
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I like Halo 3 better because, for every glitch, Halo 2 has 30 more glitches and BS ways to die.

Also, patches can fix Halo 3s problems.
Halo 2, not so much.

  • 11.23.2007 4:27 PM PDT
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halo 2 has a bit more flexible combat like double shots and bxrs which were removed from halo 3 which made a unique skill move so to speak where as halo 3 replaced the skill button glitches with more skill weapons like the laser. another reason might be the sniper it shoots slower in halo 3 but it can get a penetration double kill where as halo 2 has one shot one kill i personally prefer halo 2 over h3

  • 11.23.2007 10:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: STEVEZUKAS
halo 2 owns halo 3 in everything except graphic. even the campign is beter, H3 is so short

You are SO wrong. The campaign was the worst part of halo 2. Halo 3's campaign is far better. Not quite as good as the first.

How can you say halo 2 beats halo 3 is EVERY way? The weapon balance in halo 3 kicks the -blam!- out of halo 2, for one...

  • 11.24.2007 4:00 AM PDT
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Halo 3 takes more skill. I've been playing halo 2 lately (My 360 is having trouble reading halo 3. I'm looking into figuring out why.) and I must say halo 2 takes more luck than anything. With all the auto aim you can be shot from across the map in most hardcore games. You have to be lucky to not get double teamed. Halo 3 has less auto aim so there's more head to head situations and the maps are designed for less double teaming. The downside however is that the maps are camper friendly and a lot of people AR then melee for kills.

  • 11.24.2007 7:59 PM PDT

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